Marine Monitoring NZ Common Fish and Invertebrates of Wellington - Part 1

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male 1 Spotty - female 30 Scarlete Wrasse 49 Butterfish - male 2 Blue Cod 30 Spotty - female 50 Variable Triplefin 4 Kina 31 Blue Moki 51 Blue Cod 5 Blue Cod 31 Blue Cod 52 Oblique-swimming Triplefin 6 Blue Moki 32 Butterfish 53 Blue Moki 7 Banded Wrasse - terminal 33 Blue Moki 54 Blue Moki 8 Scarlete Wrasse 33 Banded Wrasse - terminal 54 Spotty - male 9 Blue Cod 33 Scarlete Wrasse 55 Butterfish 10 Spotty - juvenile 33 Blue Cod 56 Marblefish 11 Blue Moki 34 Blue Moki 57 Blue Cod 12 Spotty - female 35 Scarlete Wrasse - female 58 Spotty - juvenile 13 Banded Wrasse - terminal 36 Blue Cod 59 Blue Moki 14 Spectacled Triplefin 36 Scarlete Wrasse - female 59 Banded Wrasse - terminal 15 Blue Cod 37 Banded Wrasse - terminal 60 Blue Moki 16 Spotty - male 38 Blue Moki 60 Spotty 17 Paua 39 Butterfish - juvenile 61 Blue Moki 18 Banded Wrasse - terminal 39 Spotty - female 61 Scarlete Wrasse 19 Banded Wrasse - terminal 40 Blue Moki 62 Butterfish - male 20 Blue Moki 40 Scarlete Wrasse 63 Variable Triplefin 20 Spotty - female 41 Blue Moki 63 Paua 20 Scarlete Wrasse 41 Spotty - female 64 Spectacled Triplefin 21 Blue-Eyed Triplefin 42 Banded Wrasse - terminal 64 Crayfish 22 Spotty - female 42 Butterfish - juvenile 65 Banded Wrasse - terminal 24 Common Triplefin - female 43 Blue Cod 66 Blue Cod 24 Paua 44 Blue Moki 67 Spotty - female 26 Paua 45 Blue Cod 68 Blue Moki 26 Common Triplefin - female 46 Blue Moki 69 Blue Moki 27 Butterfish - juvenile 46 Scarlete Wrasse 70 Butterfish - juvenile 28 Blue Moki 46 Spotty - female 71 Spotty - female 28 Spotty - female 47 Blue Cod 71 Butterfish – juvenile NZ Name Maori Name Scientific Name Family Max Length Banded Wrasse Tangahangaha Notolabrus fucicola Labridae - Wrasses 60 cm Blue-Eyed Triplefin n/a Notoclinops segmentatus Tripterygiidae - Triplefins 6 cm Blue Moki n/a Latridopsis ciliaris Latridae 90 cm Blue Cod Pakirikiri, Rawaru Parapercis colias Pinguipedidae - Weevers 65 cm Marari, Koeaea Butterfish (Greenbone) Odax pullus Labridae - Wrasses 55 cm Common Triplefin n/a Forsterygion lapillum Tripterygiidae - Triplefins 8 cm Marblefish Kehe Aplodactylus arctidens Aplodactylidae - Marblefishes 60 cm Oblique-swimming Triplefin n/a Forsterygion maryannae Tripterygiidae - Triplefins 7 cm Scarlete Wrasse Puwaiwhakarua Pseudolabrus miles Labridae - Wrasses 40 cm Spectacled Triplefin Ruanoho whero n/a Tripterygiidae - Triplefins 9 cm Spotty Paketi, Pakirikiri Notolabrus celidotus Labridae - Wrasses 31 cm Variable Triplefin n/a Forsterygion varium Tripterygiidae - Triplefins 15 cm

Kina (Sea urchin) Kina Evechinus chloroticus Echinometridae 10/15 cm Paua (Blackfoot paua, abalone) Paua Haliotis Iris Haliotidae 18 cm Crayfish (Rock lobster) Koura Jasus edwardsii Palinuridae 45/54 cm Marine Monitoring NZ Common Fish and Invertebrates of Wellington - Part 1 -

Monitoring ID-1 v1 (Dec 2017) by Nicole Miller

Thanks to Malcolm Francis, Friends of Taputeranga Marine Reserve Trust, Wellington Underwater Club and Reef Life Survey Australia. Photos by Nicole Miller and Oceansense Ltd. Reference Guide: Coastal Fishes of New Zealand by Malcolm Francis.